FINETTI, Bonifazio. Trattato della lingua ebraica e sue affini del p. Bonifazio Finetti dell'Ordine de' Predicatori. Offerto agli eruditi per saggio dell'opera da lui intrapresa sopra i linguaggj di tutto il mondo. Aggiugnesi nel fine una Breve difesa del capo 2. di san Matteo contro d'un incredulo inglese.In Venezia, appresso Antonio Zatta, 1756

8vo, 220x124; Quarter calf binding, gilt titles and ornaments on the spine; pp. XXIV, 258, 1 folded copper plate out text., VI, 76, [4]. Woodcut ornaments, Initials; Round and Italic type. Specimen uncut, small damage on the spine.

First edition. Published for the first time by Antonio Zatta in 1756, "The Treaty of the Hebrew language and its allies" is the first chapter, the twelve planned, a large glossology that the author was completing, set to "soon be shown whether a new natural history of Genti "through the different languages spoken by the peoples of the Earth. At the treaty was followed, the lesson of 1744, under the title "A Brief Defense of Chapter II of S. Matteo against an English anonymous". Despite the writing on Semitic languages met some success, especially the enthusiastic praise (albeit late) by G. Baretti in literary Whip, F. never published the rest of glossology.